Centres and Programmes Office

Events organised by the Centres and Programmes Office, SOAS, London

The events listing includes the weekly seminar series, workshops, annual lectures, film screenings, conferences, book launches/readings, performances and symposiums. The events are organised with academic staff from all disciplines across the School and are often co-hosted with external organisations.

Most of the events organised are free and open to both internal and external audiences, unless otherwise stated.

David Hundt (Deakin)

11/02/13

Kavita Ramdya (SOAS)

14/02/13

This seminar is intended to further our understanding of these bronze objects by sharing the results of the scientific analyses and the historical and art-historical investigations that have taken place in the last ten years.

Dr Matthew Phillips

06/03/13

Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS)

06/03/13

Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi

In view of the horrific gangrape recently in Delhi concerns have been expressed about the role films. TV and advertisements play in commodifying women. Is self - regulation required or State Censorship? Does film have a larger role to play beyond that of entertainment?

23/03/13

The list of speakers is confirmed below

This workshop is inspired by recent scholarship that investigates the connections between new electronic media, traditional print media and the growth of religious, social and political constituencies, publics and communities.

Dr Audrey Truschke

May

01/05/13

Mr Jonathan Fenby (Research Associate, CCS)

08/05/13

This workshop will focus on examining the relationship between text and image in a variety of Japanese genres. The workshop is in conjunction with the SOAS exhibition of ‘1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books’ from the Tenri Library.

22/05/13

Various

The workshop will bring together researchers from across the globe working on different aspects of the re-settlement process and provide a platform to develop themes for future research, share ideas and explore the potential for working collaboratively.

Keynote speaker: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (Universität zu Köln)

24/05/13

Arshia Sattar (Independent Scholar)

31/05/13

Following on from last year’s successful workshop on South Korean film held at SOAS, the Centre for Korean Studies will host a two day symposium that aims to investigate wider aspects of Korean screen culture - cinema, television and music.

June

01/06/13

The aim of the conference is to analyse current critiques of multiculturalism, measure them against other, perhaps more progressive interpretations, and consider the potential offered by lived experience and creative visions of intercultural exchange to offer new ways of envisaging multicultural experience.

19/06/13

The conference aims to give insights into the changing boundaries and concepts of Japanese and wider East Asian art in the 19th century. In particular, we hope to review prevailing assumptions such as the caesura between Edo and Meiji, the birth of Modern Art and the Historiography of Japanese Art as a whole, and the fragmentation of Japanese from East Asian Art in the 19th century.

27/06/13

Milind Awad (Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow 2012-2013)

July

04/07/13

Kayoko Hosokawa (Executive Producer)

The JRC and Japan Society are pleased to present a special screening of Strains of Odyssey, a film that chronicles the power of music to restore confidence in individuals and communities. We are delighted to welcome the film’s executive producer, Kayoko Hosokawa, who will introduce the film and answer questions after the screening.

08/07/13

September

05/09/13

The conference brings scholars from the social sciences and humanities together in a West/East dialogue central both to mutual understanding between China and the West and also to an exploration of the possible varieties of capitalism.

19/09/13

This is a two day conference to celebrate the career and works Prof. Peter Robb who has been a leading figure in the field of modern South Asian history, as well as in the institutional life of SOAS, since the 1970s.

19/09/13

The conference will address the history of Japan and Britain in and around the year 1613. Both countries were undergoing massive cultural, religious and political transformations at the time, and it is instructive to look at their respective systems of restructuring and recreation in parallel and comparatively.

12/10/13

The purpose of this seminar is to bring together a wide range of people with experience of working in this region over an extended period to reflect on how the previous experience of ceasefire from 1994-2011 has resulted in social, political and economic change within Kachin society.

Jamie Doucette (Lecturer in Human Geography University of Manchester)

18/10/13

Paul Agusta (Director)

19/10/13

Indonesia Kontemporer 2013 is co-hosted with ARTi UK, an organization with the aim of promoting artists, from all parts of the world, who want to perform works inspired by Indonesia arts and cultural traditions.

28/10/13

The Graduate Conference is a one day event, bringing together cross-disciplinary research on Muslim South Asia. We are inviting young researchers from across the UK, Europe, US and Asia to present their work in thematic panels moderated by established academics in the relevant field.